NGOs call on the National Assembly of Thailand to stop serving shark fin

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BANGKOK: WildAid and Love Wildlife Foundation submitted an open letter to the President of the National Assembly of Thailand to seek their urgent attention and action to cease serving and consuming shark fin at Parliament House and on celebratory occasions.

This call comes after Tossaporn Serirak, a Member of Parliament from Phrae Province, and House of Representatives Chairman of the Standing Committee on Public Health, shared a public post on his personal Facebook Page on February 29, 2024, with a photo of a shark fin soup being ladled into a bowl accompanied with the text: “In the ocean, there are sharks, in the parliament there are... Should the Parliament House serve shark fin soup to members of the parliament? Stop catering food to MPs and Senators.”